[ChaitanyaSai]

Some seemingly minor issues make me wonder how bad a situation Yahoo is in. Google has integrated their messenger into chat well enough that you can search through chats, grouped separately, as well as send messages of either kind to people you have contacted through chat or email. This makes a whole lot of sense, and I would think is relatively easy to accomplish. However, Yahoo's messenger is a bloated spam attracting monstrosity that seems like an estranged sibling to Yahoo's equally hideous email service; all the distressing genetic similarities but no conversation. Now how can a company that couldn't integrate two obvious candidates from their own bundle of services do in Microsoft, which isn't any better at integrating its own cluster? I don't see synergy.

[dean]

You don't have to read much of the business literature to discover that mergers and acquisitions, especially at this scale, rarely produce the expected synergies. All in all, I think this is good news for Google.